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High schooler gets told to put on a bra 'so guys don’t stare'
Yahoo! News ^ | May 18, 2018 | Kerry Justich

Posted on 05/19/2018 12:23:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Brittney Coelho arrived at her Harker, Tex. high school one morning, dressed in an outfit deemed appropriate by her school’s dress code. But during the day, an assistant principal pulled her aside to point out an issue with her wardrobe — the fact that Coelho wasn’t wearing a bra.

“It is not a requirement in the dress code at my school for me to wear a bra,” the student tweeted. “Stop blaming girls’s outfits for boys not being raised right to respect women.”

She then posted a photo of herself in the shirt she wore to school, without a bra, alongside a screen shot of Harker Heights High School’s dress code. The high-necked top seemed to cover up everything that the guidelines restricted, leading the student to conclude that the bra request was rather sexist.

The 17-year-old recalled the conversation with the administrator, a female assistant principal, for Yahoo Lifestyle, saying that she had asked Coelho if she was wearing a bra under her shirt, to which she responded “no.” The conversation took an even more uncomfortable turn when the administrator began to allegedly explain why that wasn’t appropriate — from pointing out that it would become more noticeable to others if Coelho was cold to telling her that she should cover up “so guys don’t stare.”

The administrator did not immediately respond to Yahoo Lifestyle’s request for comment....

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TOPICS: Education; Government; Local News
KEYWORDS: dress; education; gender; schools; sex; texas
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To: cherry

Sure, thats all you have, we don’t go along with what women want, we get the personal insults and shaming attempts. You are no better than a mantra-spouting liberal in your tactics. Typical modern woman.

Men, this is exactly what I am talking about. What a nice little gal, wouldn’t you like to be married to such a sweet thing?


141 posted on 05/19/2018 11:12:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“It is not a requirement in the dress code at my school for me to wear a bra,” the student tweeted. “Stop blaming girls’s outfits for boys not being raised right to respect women.”

If a girls won't respect herself, why should she expect adolescent boys to respect her - she likes the affect she has with her nipples showing and would also like to retain the option of exerting even more control by charging the boys for ogling too much is she so chooses.....These days, if I see a woman flaunting her stuff, I'll stare, if for no other reason to get a rise out of her - they cannot make the rest of us treat them like blind spots.

142 posted on 05/20/2018 3:28:16 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: bk1000

LOL.


143 posted on 05/20/2018 6:06:19 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
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To: caww

Doesn’t.... no, I won’t say it.


144 posted on 05/20/2018 6:07:44 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
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To: cherry
Your point is well taken, but I wasn't suggesting in the slightest, nor do I think in the slightest, that how a woman dresses is an excuse for them to be mistreated in any way. What I do think, however, is that irrespective of whether you are male or female, how you dress and conduct yourself has a significant effect on how people view you and react to you, be it at school, the workplace, or elsewhere. Also, sometimes how people dress (male or female) can be disruptive - depending on the context (e.g. showing up to a high-end restaurant wearing a tee-shirt and shorts).

In a world in which we have way too many kids diagnosed with attention deficit disorder and taking Adderall and other ‘medications’, the school environment should be structured such to minimize distractions from learning. No cell phones in class, a reasonable dress code, etc., in addition to teachers who are able to stimulate interest in learning are all important in my view.

145 posted on 05/20/2018 6:42:59 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: eldoradude

Ha!


146 posted on 05/20/2018 8:17:45 AM PDT by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
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To: freedumb2003

Did we run out of paper bags?


147 posted on 05/20/2018 8:20:09 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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